App development strategies from Swish's CTO Jeff Whelpley
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Deciding on how to get your idea to the mobile market can be a long journey. Things like building your own infrastructure vs. a managed services approach, and leveraging open source technologies to keep dev costs down are just a few of the things to consider.We had a recent discussion with the CTO of Swish (a budgeting app founded by the guys who did Get Human) on mobil...
The future of Progressive Web Apps
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Back in 2012, Max Lynch, CEO and co-founder of Ionic, developed his company’s open source framework for cross-platform apps with the foresight that the web would be the future of how apps were built. Six years later, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are gaining traction as brands like Starbucks, Twitter and Pinterest have reported significant uptick in engagement upon replac...
A talk with Stack Overflow about their new app
Friday, June 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has recently released their new app to the mobile markets, allowing developers everywhere to seek the coding answers that they desire in an all new and stylish way. If you're anything like me, Stack Overflow is a necessity when it comes to troubleshooting and debugging any code language for any platform. Their website sports a robust community of knowledg...
Energy Storage Innovations Conference in search for the holy grail of batteries
Friday, October 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
The future of the energy, mobility, electronics, and communications industry will be strongly shaped by the development of one key enabling technology, that is, energy storage. At the historical tipping point of structural change in these sectors there has never been a better time for a dedicated forum on energy storage as key enabling technology. The IDTechEx Show...
How Realm's New React Native Database Helps Developers
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with the Tim Anglade, Realm's VP Product + Marketing & Partnerships to talk about the recent announcement at Facebook’s React.js Conference of its new mobile database built specifically for React Native. The new solution is a replacement for SQLite and Core Data which offers a fast database with live objects, change events and support for un...
Get Out of the Cold Weather with Ft. Lauderdale UX and FrontEnd Conference
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
UXDevSummit is a three-day event focused on the areas of User Experience (UX) and Front-End Development. Located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and held on February 4 – 6, the event offers keynotes, panels, workshops, exhibits, and entertainment that showcase leading advancements in UX and Front-End Development integration.The conference targets UX Professionals, Back and F...
Ionic Launches New Version of its HTML5 App Creator
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
It’s been a little over a year since Ionic launched the alpha of its open source Ionic Creator platform which provides an HTML5 SDK to build cross platform, native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The company has recently released a number of updates to the platform adding new features, polishing existing ones, and fixing issues...
Appery Hybrid Apps Can Now Get Automatic Updates Without Resubmitting
Thursday, November 5, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers who use Appery’s App Builder platform to create HTML5 hybrid apps will no longer have to resubmit updated apps to the app stores due to the platform’s new Automatic App Update capability. Appery’s App Builder offers a cross-platform mobile development environment with a single codebase for creating mobile and responsive apps that run on all major device ...
AppGyver Updates UI and UX for its HTML5 Hybrid App Builder
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
AppGyver’s Composer platform offers the ability for developers to bootstrap HTML5 hybrid apps. In its Composer 2 release, the company has provided updates to its UI and UX to improve how the Composer 2 admin interface looks and how the UX flow works.Composer 2 is AppGyver’s visual bootstrapping tool that allows developers to quickly finish hashing out a new app idea the...
Connect.js Conference Will Dive Deep Into Web Technologies in October
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Web developers will again flock to Atlanta for the Connect.js Conference as they dive deep into AngularJS, React.JS, Testing JavaScript, Advanced JavaScript, Enterprise JavaScript, Cross-platform Mobile Development with Phonegap & Ionic, Server-side JavaScript, Design/UI/UX, Rails, and PHP.This low cost conference will be held Friday October 16 and Saturday October ...
Ionic Continues to Build Out its HTML5 Hybrid App Development Platform
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Ionic continues to build out its open source front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components, gestures, and tools for building highly interactive apps - built with the Sass CSS extension and optimized for AngularJS.Ionic is focused mainly on the look, feel, and UI interaction of an app. T...
AppGyver Releases Supersonic, Bridging Native Grade UI and Data to HTML5 Hybrid Apps
Thursday, December 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppGyver just released Supersonic this week, defining a new way for developing high-performance mobile app user interfaces. AppGyver offers users a platform for both the novice and seasoned mobile developer in executing HTML5 mobile apps which are indistinguishable from native applications. Supersonic is a next-generation mobile hybrid framework where develop...
Create Mobile Apps Using PHP With Zend Studio Now In Beta
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The newest version of Zend Studio has been released in beta, extending the platform’s ability to support mobile app development for PHP developers by including support for Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS and by offering a fully customizable mobile application with source code. Zend Studio 12 also provides new debugging capabilities of its IDE by leveraging the new Z-Ray ...
Red Hat Releases Latest Version of JBoss Developer Studio for Open Source Java Application Development
Thursday, October 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Hot on the heels of its acquisition of FeedHenry, Red Hat has announced a new developer subscription program and resources for members of the JBoss Developer community. In conjunction with the announcement, Red Hat has launched the next version of its integrated development environment, JBoss Developer Studio. The new JBoss Developer program is a no-cost subscripti...
Ionic ngCordova Open source AngularJS Services and Extensions for HTML5 Apps
Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Richard Harris
Ionic offers a free and open source library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building HTML5 apps. Ionic has recently announced ngCordova, an open-source collection of AngularJS services and extensions that allow the use of Cordova plugins and native features in hybrid apps.With ngCordova, instead of calling Cordova plugins directly and having to figur...
AppGyver to Launch HTML5 Composer to Bootstrap Steroids Apps
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
AppGyver will make available its new Composer platform on May 20 allowing developers to bootstrap Steroids HTML5 apps in under 15 minutes.Features of Composer Include:Build service validations and UI updates: The Build Service UI has been updated for increased usability. It also now does some basic validation for build configurations client-side, helping catch...
Asynchrony Solutions Receives $3 Million in New Funding for Ionic Mobile Practice
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
Asynchrony (www.asynchrony.com), a Saint Louis-based provider of agile software development, enterprise architecture, and systems integration services for a range of government and commercial customers, today announced $3 million in corporate funding from its parent company, Schafer Corporation. The proceeds will be used to accelerate the growth of ionic mobile (ww...
